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An Open Letter from a 'Fat Chick' to Mike Jeffries, CEO of Abercrombie And Fitch

Thu, 05/16/2013 - 14:30 — Dave Culver
  • "Abercrombie is only interested in people with washboard stomachs who look like they're about to jump on a surfboard.
  • "A lot of people don't belong [in our clothes], and they can't belong.
  • "I don't want our core customers to see people who aren't as hot as them wearing our clothing." -- Mike Jeffries, CEO of Abercombie + Fitch
  • Man attempts to rebrand Abercrombie by giving clothes to homeless.

Amy Taylor, Huffington Post

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05/10/2013 | I remember the moment as though it were yesterday (which is saying a lot, because it was nearly two decades ago...) Last week of 8th grade. One of the "popular girls" walked over to me in gym class and asked if she could write in my yearbook. When she handed my book back, I excitedly turned the cover, only to discover that she had written (in beautiful penmanship) the following:

 

Have a great summer. Stay thin.

 

Except the word "thin" had been crossed out with a single line.

 

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Man attempts to rebrand Abercrombie by giving clothes to homeless, Prachi Gupta, Salon

Abercrombie CEO Mike Jeffries wants only cool people wearing his gear. L.A. filmmaker Greg Karber is changing that. 

 

 
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Documentary explores life after the military for female veterans

Tue, 05/14/2013 - 07:32 — Dave Culver

  • “Service: When Women Come Marching Home,” a new documentary, chronicles the stories of eight military women, including their struggles with sexual assaults and serious wounds and the challenges of returning from war to family life.
  • Film shows challenges of female veterans
  • Military Sexual Assaults Spike Despite Efforts To Combat Epidemic

Hal Bernton, Seattle (WA) Times

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From left, Angela Arellano, a veteran from Tumwater; Alfie Alvarado-Ramos, first female director of the Washington State Department of Veterans Affairs; Marcia Rock, New York-based co-producer of documentary “Service: When Women Come Marching Home;” and Bridget Cantrell, a post-traumatic-stress-disorder specialist from Bellingham. Erika Schultz / Seattle (WA) Times 

In 1992, Angela Arellano, then a 19-year-old Marine based in Okinawa, told military police that a noncommissioned officer had raped her after an evening spent watching a football game on television.

The investigation did not result in a prosecution. Instead, Arellano was accused of lying and disciplined for an after-hours violation.

“They said he was an outstanding Marine and I was trying to smear his good reputation,” recalls Arellano of Tumwater, Thurston County. “I was given two weeks of restrictions, two weeks of extra duty and two months of reduced pay.”

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Film shows challenges of female veterans, Tom Wilemon, The Tennessean

  • Sue Downes, who served as a driver and gunner in Afghanistan, had both legs amputated below the knee after her Humvee hit landmines in 2005.
  • Stand with anti-war veteran Mike Prysner against right-wing attacks!

Military Sexual Assaults Spike Despite Efforts To Combat Epidemic, Molly O'Toole, Huffington Post

  • The report released Tuesday by Defense's Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office (SAPRO) follows the Sunday arrest of Lt. Col Jeffrey Krusinski, head of the Air Force SAPRO program, under allegations of sexual assault of a woman.
  • Film shows challenges of female veterans

 

 

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Pat Bagley | Old News / media.cagle.com

Mon, 05/06/2013 - 17:46 — Dave Culver

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Principal Fires Security Guards, Hires Arts Teachers

Sat, 05/04/2013 - 19:42 — Dave Culver

Americans Against the Tea Party

Special Project | The War on Children: Week of May 5, 2013

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Special Project | The War on Children: Week of May 5, 2013, David Culver, Ed., Evergreene Digest

  • The United States is one of the few countries in the world that puts children in supermax prisons, tries them as adults, incarcerates them for exceptionally long periods of time, defines them as super predators, pepper sprays them for engaging in peaceful protests, and, in an echo of the discourse of the war on terror, describes them as 'teenage time bombs.' 
  • 8 New Items including:
    • Gay teens starved, tortured, killed at camp to turn them into ‘men’
    • Pennsylvania judge sentenced to 28 years in prison for selling teens to prisons
    • Exposed: The Billionaire-Backed Group Strong-Arming Parents into Destroying Their Kids' Public Schools
    • 30 years later, nation remains at educational risk
    • Catholic Church ramps up opposition to Minnesota anti-bullying bill
    • Child poverty in US among the highest in developed world
    • How Schools Are Becoming Prisons
    • A Mother's Plea: Stop Solitary Confinement of Children

 

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America’s Locked-Down Insecurity State

Tue, 04/30/2013 - 18:36 — Dave Culver
  • Emerging evidence from the Boston Marathon bombings suggests the brutal attack on innocent civilians was motivated by the fury of two brothers against overseas crimes of the U.S. government. In that, the martial-law lockdown of Boston may be a glimpse at the future to come, says Phil Rockstroh.
  • “Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.” ― Søren Kierkegaard

Phil Rockstroh, Consortium News

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A photograph released by the FBI of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects, later identified as Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. 

April 26, 2013 | Life, as lived, moment to moment, in the corporate/consumer state, involves moving between states of tedium, stress, and swoons of mass media and consumer distraction. Therein, one spends a large portion of one’s economically beleaguered life attempting to make ends meet and not go mad from the pressure and the boredom.

Where does a nebulous concept such as freedom even enter the picture, except to be a harbinger of an unfocused sense of unease … that all too many look to authority to banish? Finding a balance between anxiety and freedom is not something that comes easy to us.

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Poetry from MPAC-sponsored Anti-Drone Rally ~ Misty Rowan

Thu, 04/25/2013 - 14:05 — Dave Culver
  • The Cable News Network as equivalent to Attention Deficit Disorder >OR< CNN=A.D.D.
  • Beautiful World
  • On Military Drones (and tearing them to pieces)

Misty Rowan, Evergreene Digest

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April 6, 2012 | Misty Rowan is a poet/activist from Minneapolis who believes art and activism are essentially the same thing. She read these three poems at the MPAC-sponsored Anti-Drone rally on April 6 to great acclaim.

She is a member of the Anti War Committee (.org) and she won the VERVE grant for spoken word poetry in 2012. You can check out her poetry at missteatree.com.

Here's a sample from one of her poems in this collection: On Military Drones (and tearing them to pieces).

We are the purveyors of death and atrocity in these parts of the world

and then you wonder why they hate us  ???

So you tell me, who is the real terrorist? Rebel with a gun or the  

smiling politician? Whatever gets the job done, and these days

the job is as easily done as the push of a button

by some pimple faced kid in a bunker in Nevada, somewhere. 

Did you know that the controls for these drones are compatible with 

a Play Station? This is not a coincidence. 

They are spoon-feeding this to your kids, so I suggest you get acquainted. 

Because drones are the future of warfare that already is.

More of Misty Rowan's poetry...

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